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[lenb]

Jim,
Congratulations on your new pistol. It's great that you are willing to help out your friend now that he needs the money, and willing to make it avaiable to him after he gets back on his feet. (It's gotta be tough on him to have to give it up with the history it has with his dad.)

There are a lot of ways the pistol found it's way to his dad...he could have been issued it, and parts got swapped during cleaning, or maybe he traded someone for it along the way. It's almost impossible to tell at this late date. One thing I'm curious about, you mention the finish looks original and matching on both slide and frame. Is the gun blued or parkerized? If it's blued and original finish, the slide would be an oven blue, where the frame would be rust blued. If it's parkerized, then it was refinished at some point. Pics would be great to see if you can get them to post.

Len (PSU:BSME class of '84)

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[f15guy71]

Len, The little finish remaining on both the Slide and Frame is not parkerizing, but bluing similiar to my m1911 Springfield and Colt. I agree we'll probably never really figure out the audit trail of this weapon. I'll just continue to treat it with the respect due an interesting piece of history.
Warm regards- Jim BS AeroEng